The Sun. — London, England, 1838-11-13 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. In the present state of our foreign relations it is impor tant to every Englishman who concerns himself in political affairs to have correct and distinct notions concerning the general state of the Russian empire, the character of its policy, and the facilities which it possesses of carrying that policy into effect. We fear, that the popular information information on these points is very obscure and indefinite. A general idea prevails that the people of Russia are rude and its Government rapacious. There is a vague ap prehensioh of the vastness of its territory and the violence of its tyranny, but this apprehension is clouded with much error. There are many who connect the idea of Russian vastness with that of an empire unwieldy and unmanageable. Than this, no idea can be more incorrect. There is no Go vernment in Europe of which the minute details—so far as relates to the safety and aggrandisement of the State —are so strictly attended to. Russian policy may be compared to some of the great mechanical engines for which this country is so celebrated—engines of which the enormous power is distributed by an almost end less variety of nice combinations, and with such infinite precision that every plunge of the vast piston which threa tens to shake down the building where it works, gives an impetus to the most intricate movements of the most deli cate machinery, and has its force divided and managed with such admirable exactness that net a particle of it is lost. The comparison may also in a very important respect be carried further, for as in such vast engines as we have al luded to very little attention is necessary (such is the sim plicity of their principle) to the generating of the power which does the work, and all the skill of the managers is concentrated upon the application of that power with the nicest ingenuity towards the production of the amplest effect—so in the Russian empire the simplicity of its internal concerns is such, that the whole energy, vigilance, and talent of its political managers may be fixed upon its external affairs. In a political N iew , Russia resembles an army rather than a na tion. Its whole population is under discipline. In poli tical affairs the people move only by word of command, and the commanding officer is the Government. There is no such thing as popular opinion to be consulted before a course is decided upon, nor have measures to be modified according to the preponderance of the interests upon which the power of Government depends. The physical resources of the nation, such as they are, are at the disposal of the Government, like money in a man's pocket-book, of which the owner has only to consider when, where, and how lie may lay it out to the best advantage. As a great help to the understanding of how this comes to pass we shall here quote a brief and masterly analysis of the political power and political character of Russia, which appeared in the Quarterly Review in February, 1836. It occurs in the course of a paper of remarkable comprehension, vigour, and intelligence, for which Sir John Walsh's " Chapters of Con temporary History" formed the text : " The power and ambition of Russia had made her more dangerous to the peace of Europe and the interests of Eng land than any other State. From the first moment in which she had felt herself strong enough to ta'w a share in the political affairs of Europe, she has directed all her efforts to the acquision of territory—by whatever means, and in every direction. Her weight is too great to be successfully re sisted by any one of the many States with which she is in contact. Her ambition is too restless and lofty —it has been too long indulged, and too successfully pursued, to jus tify any expectation that she will cease to be guided by it. She, in any war in which she may be engaged, believes that she hazirds no more than the number of soldiers that cross her frontier. Her existence she con ceives, cannot be threatened by external . free—and her popula tion is t , o ignorant to be under the influence of the Press or the public assemblies of Europe. Occupying a position so unattackable, and possessing an extent of territory far ex ceeding that which has ever been permanently possessed by any European Crown—she has not addicted herself to the arts of peace or the amelioration of her internal condition, but availing herself of the facilities for com bination and secrecy in Council—for promptitude, unity and rapid decision in action, which the autocratic form of go vernment affo-ds her, she preserves a perpetual dictatorship, which—converting her whole institutions i,,to a military orga nisation—closes almost every path to fame, honour, or wealth, except that only which may be opened by the sword; while, defective in the higher classes of education and intelligence amongst her own people, she has drawn frcm the intellec tual resources of other countries instruments fitted to her purposes, and has found means of attaching to her interests some of the most profound aid skilful of modern statesmen and diplomatists. With a moveable army of not less that two hundred thousand men, and reserves equally numerous, she is prepared to issue as from a fortress into the more genial countries of Central and Western Europe—there to establish —by force or fraud—the ascendancy which a bold counte nance, an imperious bearing, her military strength, and her skilful diplomatic combinations, have secured to her in the East. Profiting by the dissensions or weakness, from what ever cause arising, of the neighbouring nations, both in Eu rope and in Asia, she has found means to appropriate to her self in each of these divisions of the globe territories equal in extent to the largest kingdoms—and she still longs for further acquisitions." . Such, then, is the nation with which Great Britain has to manage a mighty warfare—a warfare perhaps of fleets and armies—a warfare whose voice is heard in the cannon's thunder—whose foot-prints are marked with blood—whose triumphs are thrown into bright relief, by the deep shades of death and destruction through which they must be achieved—but if not this, at all events a warfare of in terests, a struggle for the mastery, by the exertion of politi cal energy and political skill. For either warfare how are we prepared ? That is the point to be considered. We are not to be content with measuring our strength, political or physical, by loose abstractions or general analogies, but by comparison with the power that we have to cope withal. Nor are we to consider the one power alone, whose resources, whose political state, and whose despotism we have had under contemplation, but. also the probable combinations which will have been arranged before the contest proceeds much further. Enough has already happened in Persia and in Turkey—at Herat and at Constan tinople —to satisfy every man in the country of the slightest observation that, whether fighting shall shortly take place between Great Britain and Russia or not, there must be mutual jealousy and opposition of which the ultimatum will doubtless be fighting, if by any circumstances Russia shall find herself placed in a decidedly advantageous posi tion for striking a blow. Such circumstances may arise, either out of our increasing weakness at home or Russia's increasing strength abroad—either by the continued sinking of our Government in consequence of its union with the he terogeneous riff-raff of the country, and the consequent dis gust of all who constitute its political solidity and force, or by the union of Russia with France— of ambition with hatred— of cool craft with long-cherished revenge—to humble the pride and despoil the possessions of Great Britain. How, then, is the country to provide against the occurrenceof these cir cumstances ? How are they to be averted? Is it reason able to presume that under the guidance of our present Ministers they can be averted ? We fear that it is not. This Administration is in too weak and too uncertain a position—it is too much engaged in a painful and ignomi nious struggle for its own existence, to be able to devote itself with energy to external affairs. And even if it were not thus engrossed—even if it had leisure and talent for preparing against foreign enmity, and possible aggression, it would still be inefficient for that purpose, because it does not possess the confidence of those classes in the empire upon whom its moral and physical strength depends. How can we expect vigorous action from an Administration which has no support beyond a very slender majority of the House of Commons, and that majority made up of the most disreputable men in the whole empire ? Take away from the Ministerial supporters in the Lower House of Parliament, all such persons as are considered by millions of British subjects to live in habits of legislative perjury—all wh o wou ld not be trusted by any London tradesman with five hundred pounds—there would then be no such thing as a Ministerial majority. Purge that House of the Romanist Members from Ireland—men owing their seats to an influence which is notoriously hostile to British interests—a n d th en the present Ministry would have no majority either in the Commons or the Lords. That a Ministry in this position —a Ministry distrusted and op posed by a large majority o f the Nobility and Gentry, and by almost all the Clergy of Great Britain, should present the the most discouraging front to to external enemies r , sup t pose. of our nation, it is me re madness Under such an Administration as t h e ca nnot have a cordial union, a n d frank co-eOpener'atiwone of the wealth, strength, and intelligence of the country for the common defence. The present Ministry is nothing better than the dust and ashes of a revolutionary explosion. w g i r l ground, u l e n a d d , The lava has rolled away and cooled down into Conserve mere rubbish still cumb eriosnmese h : Conserva tive masses—the and chokes the growth of wholesome English spirit. Th e same c a use w hich makes the state it wea F k o a rei l make h to foreign combinations against alliances with those have no such thi t ne e in whom they the have confidence, to prejudice of, those in whom as that which has No firmly consolidated Contineyntal State can have confidence in such a Government or weakness, for some years ruled Great Britain—a . _ . Government which has been, either from wilfulness, yet the tool of the European revolutionary party. While the new Government of France was King having unconsoli dated, and required the support of revolutionary .. sentiment, France was with us. The French se struggled like a ra ti ona l man to establish a settled Leo r4 liefiNseepc,rttOkhaving attained his object, very naturally e -e - A . _ ,ts-lvienself and his power from the English patrons.. =' - - "jherar:tlista\ebance. The character of our Adminis ( / ' es - 4raireen tiausWd, clrAnged before anything like real confidence 1- .. ~ T e'i.ark itelenit4etw i fttn any of the settled Continental G.o -,.. ec2 e cserhirients ankivr own. True, there is no one man in \-, , ,g d e ope k . Thom' these Continental Governments would (e , c . e! s tie.sek,edily essereffe as in the D u k e o f W e lli ng t on , but ip claw pot belong to our Government—be is in op -A, THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1838. TO THE MOST REV. D R. MACHALE. MY LORD,—As I have never been honoured by your Grace with any communication on the subject of National Educa tion, except what has reached me indirectly through the rb lie Press, I hope I shall not be deemed wanting in courtesy to your Grace, by adopting the same public method, for the pur pose of calling your Grace's attention to the injustice of the aspersions which your Grace has thought proper, in your late address to the Clergy and Laity of the dioccss of Tuam, to cast upon the system of National Education, with which I am intimately connected, and, of course, upon myself. Finding but little in that address which was not Fully an swered by anti&pation, in a published letter, which I took the liberty of addressing to the Roman Catholics of Ireland, my observations at present shall be but few. I despatch at once your Grace's remarks about the " Mary, full of grace," by a mere reference to that portion of the Scripture Lessons, which is taken from the first chapter of St. Luke, the slightest inspection of which will be enough to prove, that the Commissioners were so far from translating the text alluded to in the way which your Grace insinuates, that they did not attempt to translate it at all. In a passage which is enclosed within brackets, for the avowed purpose of showing that it is not to be considered as Scripture, the words " peculiarly blessed" are applied to the Virgin, not, however, as a transla.ion of the Greek word signifying " full of grace," but as a paraphrase of the words " blessed among women." How can your Grace justify the misstatement, which your Grace's remark about the Hail Mary but too clearly implies? Surely it is not possible that such a misstatement could have been delibera'e. The argument by which your Grace attempts to prove the accuracy of your former assertion, that the Commissioners of Education regulate, through their insp?ctors, the quantity of religious instruction to be given to the people, exhibits a spe cimen of logic so exceedingly curious, that it is quite deserving of notice. The Commissioners allow the National Schools to be given up two days in every week, in order to afford the respective pastors of the children an opportunity of giving them as much religious instruction as they choose ; and, besides these two days, they allow the Managers, on every other day of the week, to appoint as many hours, prov.dcd they do not clash with the time necessary for joint instruction, as they may think proper for the same religious purpose. From these premises, which are sufficiently clear, your Grace jumps all at once to the conclusion, that the Commissioners are, therefore, guilty of the grievous charge of attempting to regulate the quantity of religious instruction which the children—yLur Grace said, on a former occasion, the people—are to receive. " The quantity," your Grace gravely observes, " is regulated by the hours allctted to religious instruction." Could your Grace have been really serious in drawing from such premises such a conclusion? Perhaps so: for even old Homer himself, whi!e engaged in composing his undyinr , works, was sometimes, as we read, known to slumber ; and, if he were not blind, I would add, with his eyes open. The objection drawn from what has been said, in one of our books regarding the creation, has just as little argument as the last to recommend it. Surely, in the present sate of science, your Grace would have been somewhat ashamed to urge it, if you had read the learned and orthodox work of Dr. Wiseman on the connexion of science with religion. In allusion to powers exercised by the National Board, " which none could approve," your Grace says, " Such, for instance, is the power of permitting toe vernacular Scriptures, In or out of school hours, whether ►n separate or joint educa . . . . without the permission of the ordinary lon . of the diocese in which such vernacular versions arc read.' Your Grace is aware that the Board does not permit the read ing of the Sacred Scriptures in National Schools, during the time of joint instruction. Why, then, does your Grace, by the studied ambiguity of your language, seem willingly to in sinuate that it does? During the time set apart for separate religious instruction, it, of course, permits—that is, it does not prohibit (how could it ?)--the use of the Sacred Volume, to those who may choose to avail then:selves of it. But how this mere non-prohibition can interfere with the authority of the Ordinary (were it even admitted to be such as your Grace represents it) I am quite as much at a loss as, I nm sure, all the rest of the world will be, to comprehend. It really makes one melancholy to reflect on the pitiful straits to which a great mind may be reduced in labouring to sustain a helpless CdU'C. I pass over various such objections, the futility of which it will not be difficult to discover, and I come to the point on which your Grace seems principally to rely for support— namely, that the opposition of your Grace to the system of National Eduction is in accordance with the sentiments of the great majority of your episcopal brethren. In my letter, already alluded to, addressed to the Roman Catholics of Ire land, I demonstrated, on the unquestionable testimony of two distinguished prelates, who could not be deceived as to the fact, that this assumption was at utter variance with the truth. As, however, your Grace, with a stretch of boldness which few would venture to imitate, seems to throw a doubt upon the validity of even their testimony, chiefly because they did not refer to certain episcopal resolutions passed in 182 - 6, it may not be inexpdient to examine, somewhat at large, whether those resolutions can now be brought forward, with any kind 'of fairness, against the National System. It is quite true that the Catholic Bishops, when harassed by a system of proselytism under the guise of education, did deem it right to come to the resolutions which your Grace has quoted, as the only means which then appeared practicable, for securing the faith of the children who attended the schools of the Kildare-place Society ; and, had no sufficient guaran tee been devised as a substitute for the conditions mentioned in those resolutions, the Bishops would, without doubt, have adhered to them sternly and perseveringly. But a new era arose. The system of Education, now justly called National, was proposed as an experiment. The Bishops saw in it what they considered a sufficient guarantee for the safety of the re ligion of the children educated under it. It appeared to the great majority of them to secure, with sufficient efficacy, the object which they had in view in the adoption of the previous resolutions; and it was, therefore, allowed, as a substitute for them, to spread, without opposition, from any quarter, over the whole face of the country. Your Grace's ever-to-be-la mented predecessor in the See of Tuam had signed the reso lutions of 1826: and, yet, without once thinking that he was violating the spirit of them, he was among the first to em brace the new system, by the establishment of a National School at Tuam. The illustrious Doctor Doyle, than whom there was not a more uncompromising champion of the faith, and who had also signed the same resolutions, was so con vinced that the new system contained an adequate substitute for the security which he had previously sought, that he issued a circular letter to his Clergy, recommending them to encour age the spread of National Schools throughout every parish in his diocess. Still further : from the time of the commence ment of the National System, until the middle of February, 1837, there were six General Meetings of the Catholic Bi shops of Ireland held in Dublin. During the whole of that time it was advancing under the eyes of the Prelates, in all directions, through the country. And, yet, in not one of those meetings was there a single resolution ( I don't say passed, but even proposed), to condemn it, as falling short of the terms previously insisted on. I now proceed to still more re cent testimony to prove, that the National System was freely accepted by our Prelates, without the least dread of your Grace's favourite resolutions. And as your Grace ( I cannot conjecture why) has thought it right to insinuate that certain circumstances of the North of Ireland have placed some of its Prelates under the necessity of being more pliant than their brethren elsewhere, I will go at once for testimony to the ex treme South, where no such circumstances exist. The Bishop of Kerry, tinder date of the Bth of March last, after expressing the satisfaction which his Lordship and his Clergy felt at being relieved from the annoyance of the Kil dare-place Society, writes thus : " I besides consider, that almost all the Bishops of Ireland (perhaps there is not a single exception), are pledged to the present system, because they all, either personally or through their Clergy, have applied for aid to the present Commis sioners to build Schools, and to pay the Masters; which, most certainly, should not be done if any substantial objection was entertained by them. In conclusion, I pray your Grace to affix my name to any document you may draw up in approval of the system that now exists." The Bishop of Limerick, under the date of the 7th of March, after alluding to the unsuccessful attempt which your Grace made at the February meeting of the present year, thus writes :—. " But to come more directly to your Grace's questions, I am of opinion that if the Bishops of Ireland were now to tergiversation. I s discountenance the establish e d s ystem of education, they would subject th emse l ves to the charge o f i ncons i stency , if not o am, of t h ithis therefore, country, under i and the religious, e m l i o g s i t o u s, than unquali fied conviction, th a t f ew c i rc umstances could be more disas trousf to he iest that your Grace should cease to be a member of the National Board." But why need I harass your Grace by the lent* b recital of similar testimonies, when I can come at once to the object which I have in view, by producing your Grace's own impor tant and conclusive testimony to sustain me? S o lately as the 30th of May, last year, an application, bearing your 'Grace's well-known signature, reached our Board, praying for aid to wards the establishment of a National School in Hollymount. By that signature your Grace distinctly renounced, under your own hand, your adhesion to the condition s requ i re d b y those same resolutions, which you now hold to be so inviola ble, and you accepted, in their stead, the National System. With what consistency can you now bring th em f orward, as i f they were of fixed and unalterable obligation? I: is true that your Grace's application was, unf ortunate ly, of such a nature that the Commissioners did not think them selves at liberty to accede to it. It was f or a sum of money, to establish a school in the dwelling-house of the Rev. James Mac Hale. What new light this disappointm en t may h ave thrown upon the Nation al System, it is not for me to guess. l o t n h without any Commissioners, But it appears that, on the following . February, in a meeting of Bishops, from which a severe illness compelled me to be absent, previous in no and after some of the Prelates had . retired, }our Grace, as I communi cation w. a m wit with informed, under date of very measured terms, for their imputed partiality in the dis m tribution of the education grant, and to harangue the meeting thought o t u o g ht animadvert r proper, on the dangerous tendency of the system which they admi- P P relate some Prelate, who It n vh i a s e st admi nistered. t d t ht . 1 es s f P t Part ta o —r fc thisast,heard scenebyf is oa rnr othusothn another described, respected. Southern (I cannot all it specious) . declamation against the propriety of surrendering the instruction of the people committed to our care to a Government Board, or to any other Board; but I did not think it deserving of any attention, as it w as pl a i n ly not only, in argument, a begg in g of the” question, b u t, i n fact, manifestly at variance with th e truth." My Lord, these statements have been wrung f rom me. / withheld them long, in the hope that at some moment of sober reflection, a blush might ultimately steal and burn up o n y our Grace's cheek, at the thought of continuing to pursue a course regardin g the concerns of our common religion, at open va riance with the known wishes of the great majority, and ap proved of, I believe, by none of your brother Prelates. I now retire from this controversy, which has been forced upon me; and I do so with the consciousness that I have been drawn into it by no consideration of personal feeling, but merely by a sense of public duty, at a time %hen longer silence on my part would have been injustice. Before, however, I finish, I beg to offer your Grace one word of consolation. Your Grace seems to think, that the very atmosphere of our training school is tainted with the poison of heresy. Permit me now to inform your Grace, that of the masters now there in a course of training, seven eights are of the ancient faith ; that many of them evince much piety by their frequent recourse to the Sacraments ; that all of them have an opportunity of receiving religious in struction within the School, one day in the week, besides the additional opportunities afforded on the Sabbath ; and that it is nearly impossible, should any attempt be made on the re ligious opinions of such men, that it could escape immediate detection and exposure. Having now, as far as my slender abilities would permit, endeavoured to dissipate the alarms which your Grace studied to excite, relative to the system of National Education ; and having, at least, in some manner, enabled the public to judge between your Grace and a few, on the one hand, and " the vast majority of the Catholic Hierarchy and Priesthood of Ireland" on the other, it only remains for me to recommend the result to the over-ruling providence of that gracious God, who his so long protected our holy faith, under the grievous trials through which He has conducted it in safety, and whose merciful interposition I daily invoke for its wider extension and unbroken perpettriv. With the sincerest wishes for your Grace's happiness, I l ave the honour to remain, my Lord, You. Grace's humble servant and brother in Christ, + D. MURRAY. Dublin, Bth November, 1838. P. S.—l have to apologize that it was not in my power to claim your Grrce's notice earlier, as my temporary :bsence from Dublin prevented me from having immediate access to some of the documents to which I was desirous to call your Grace's attenticn. position, while the destinies of the nation are confided to men who owe their position solely and entirely to the support of the wild, weak, and bigotted rabble of Irish Romanists! This is the state of British Government, while danger threatens from foreign rivals— from colonial malcontents—from internal revolutionists, eager for political change ! Is it possible to conceive any thing more preposterous than that the British nation, under such circumstances, should be so ruled ?-31orning Post. NOMINATION OF SHERIFFS IN THE COURT OF EXCHEQUER-PRIVY COUNCIL. Yesterday, according to ancient custom, a council was held in the Court of Exchequer, for the purpose of nomi nating Sheriffs for the year ensuing. There were present the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Marquis of Lans downe, Lord Holland, the Lord Chancellor, Lord Denman, Lord Abinger, Lord Chief Justice Tindal, and the Judges of all the Courts of Law. Mr. Greville was in attendance as Cerk of the Council. There were fewer requests to be excused from serving the office than ever beforo remembered in any one year. The only excuse of ❑ovelty was in the county of Hertford, where Mr. Delmer Radcliffe prayed to be excused on the ground of the great expense he was put to in keeping a pack of foxhounds.—(Great laughter.) Their Lordships did not think that excuse sufficient. The following are the names of those who were nominated for Sheriffs by the Lords of the Council at the Exchequer, on the morrow of St. Martin, in the second year of the reign of her Majesty Queen Victoria, and in the year of our Lord 1838 : BEDFORDSIIIRE.-Levi Ames, of East Hyde, Esq. ; Henry Littledale, of CarJington, Esq. ; and Wm. Augustus Orle- bar, of Poddington, Esq. BERKSHIRE.—Francis Cholmley, of White Knights, Esq. ; Sir Henry Russell, of Swallowfield Park, Bart. ; and Mor timer George Thoyts, of Sulhampstead House, Esq. BUCKS.—Benjamin Way, of Denham, Esq ; the Right Hon. Sir George Warrender, of Clifton, Bart. ; and John Peter Dering, of the Lee, Esq. CAMBRIDGE AND HUNTINGDON SHIRES.—Rear- Admiral Sir Richard Hussey Hussey, K. C. 8., of Orton Hall ; John Linton, of Slirtloe, Esq. ; and John Beaufoy Cooper, of Abbotts [Upton, Esq. CUNIBERLAND. —Thomas Hartley, of Gillfoot, Esq. ; Sir George Musgrave, of Eden Hall, Bart. ; and James Robert san Walker, of Gelgarrow, Esq. CHESHIRE.—Thomas Hebbert, of Buttes, Esq. ; Charles Lawton, of Lawton, Esq. ; and John Tollemache, of Ti!- stons Lodge, Esq. CORNWALL. —Deehle Peter Hob'yn, of Colquite, Esq. ; Lewis Stevens, of Tregenna Castle, Esq. ; and Sir Richard Rawlinson Vyvyan, of Trelowarren, Bart. DERBYSIIIRE.-Broughton Benjamin Steade Pegg Burnell, of Beauchief Abbey, Esq. ; Edward Degge Sitwell, of Stanisby, Esq. ; and William John Bagshaw, of the Oaks, s DEV E ON q. fAIIIIE.-Gcorge Stanley Cary, of Follaton, Esq. ; John Crocker Bultecl, of Fleet, Esq. ; and Codrington Parr, of S:oelands, Esq. DORSETSHIR.F.-Joseph Weld, of Lulworth Castle, Esq. ; William John Bankes, of Kingston Lacey, Esq. ; and John Samuel Wanley Sawbridgc Erle Drax, of Charborough Park, Esq. DURHAM.-Sir W. Chaytor, of Whilton Castle, Bart. ; Sir lied worth Williamson, of Whitburn, Bart. ; and W. Rus sell, of Brancepath Castle, Esq. ESSEX.— Christopher Thomas Tower, of Weald Hall, Esq. ; John Fletcher Mills, of Lcxden-park, Esq. ; and Abraham Johnson, of Berwick-place, Esq. GLOCCESTERSIIIRE.—Maynard Colchester, of Westbury-on- Severn, Esq. ; William Henry Hyett, of Painswick-house, Esq. ; and Edmund Hopkinson, of Edgeworth, Esq. HEREFORDSHIRE. —John Higford, of Abbey Dore, Esq. ; Thomas Heywood, of Hopend, Esq. ; and Robert Lane, of Ryelands, Esq. HERTFORDSHIRE.—Frederick Peter Delm6 Radcliffe, of Hitchen, E.q. ; Charles Bennet Drake Gerrard, of Wheat hamstead, Esq. ; and George Gould Morgan, Buckendon- bury, Esq. KENT.—David Salomons, of Broom. hill, Tonbridgc, Esq. Charles Milner, of Preston-hall, Esq. ; and Edward Hus• sey, of Scotney Castle, Esq. LEICESTERSHIRE.—Edward Dawson, of Whatton-house, Esq. ; Charles Neville, of Holt, Esq.; and Sir George Joseph Palmer, of Wanlip, Baronet. LTNCOLNSHIRE.—George Fieschi Heneage, of Stanton-hall, Esq. ; Thomas George Corbett, of Eisham, Esq. ; and Sir Edward Brackenbury, of Skendleby, Knight. MONMOUTHSHIRE.—CoIthurst Bateman, of Pertholey, Esq. ; Samuel Homfray, of Bedwelty, Esq. ; and Summers Har ford, of Sirhowy, Esq. NORFOLK.—Sir Thomas Hare, of Stow Bardolph, Bart. ; An drew Four.taine, of Narford, Esq. ; and William Howe Wyndham, of Fcllburgh, Esq. NORTHAMPTONSIIIRE.—WiIIiam Drayson, of Floors, Esq. ; Thomas Alderson Cooke, of Peterborough, Esq. ; and Fre derick William Vernon Wentworth, of Stoke Park, Esq. NottrunisancuLatin.—John Davidson, of Ridley Hall, Esq. ; William Lawson, of Longhirst, Esq. ; and Sir Matthew White Ridley, of Blagdon, Bart. NOTTINGHAMSHIRE.—Thomas Dickenson Hall, of Whatton, Esq. ; John Evelyn Denison, of Opington, Esq. ; and Ed ward Valentine Pegg Burnell, of Winkburn, Esq. OxFounsnrun.—John Slater Harrison, of Sbclswell, Esq. ; Hugh Hammersley, of Aston, Esq. ; and John Shawe Phil lips, of Culham, Esq. RUTLANDSHIRE. —John Moncton, of Seaton, Esq. ; Samuel Richard Fydell, of Morcott, Esq. ; and John Tomblis, of Leighfield, Esq. SHROPSHIRE.—Sir Andrew Vincent Corbet, of Acton Rey nold, Bart. ; Thomas Eyton, of Eyton, Esq. ; and Peter Broughton, of Tunstall, Esq. SOMERSETSHIRE.—Sir William Coles Mcdlycott, of Milborne Port; John Jarrett, of Cummerton, Esq. ; and William Francis Knatchbull, of Babington, Esq. STAFPORDSHIRE.—WiIIiam Moore, of Wychdon-lodge, Esq. ; Edmund Wigan, of Lapley, Esq. ; and Henry John Pye, of Clifton-hall, Esq. COUNTY OF SOUTHANIPTON.—John Mills, of Bestern, Ring. wood, Esq. ; George Henry Ward, of Northwood-park, Esq. ; and John Meggott Elwes, of Bossington-house, Stockbridge, Esq. SUFFOLK.—Arthur John Brook, of Horningshcath, Esq. ; George St. Vincent Wilson, of Redgrave, Esq. ; and Sir Joshua Recketts Rowley, of Tendring-hall, Bart. SURREY.—SamueI Paynter, of Richmond, Esq. ; Wm. Levc son Gower, of Titsey-place, Oxted, Esq. ; and the Hon. Peter Locke King, of --. SUSSEX.—Thomas Frewen, of Brickwall-house, Northiam, Esq. ; John Davies Gilbert, of Eastbourne, Esq. ; and Sir Richard Hunter, of Patching, Knt. WARWICKSHIRE. —Sir Francis Lawley, of Middleton-hall, Bart. ; Dempster Heming, of Caldicott, Esq. ; and Sir Edward Joseph Smythe, of Wotton, Bart. WILTSHIRE. —CharIes Lewis Phipps, of Wans-house, Esq. • William Henry Fox Talbot, of Lacock Abbey , Esq. ; and John Edward Andrew Starky, of Spy-park, Esq. WORCESTERSHIRE.—WiIIiam Congreve Russell, of Kings heath, Esq. ; Thomas Charles Hornybold, of Blackmore. park, Esq. ; and William Lacon Childe, of Kinlet, Esq. YORKSHIRE.—CharIes Tempest, of Broughton, Esq. ; Robert Milnes, of Bawtry, Esq. ; and Sir Clifford Constable, of Burton Constable, Bart. A SAINT FOR GIBRALTAR. -1 ent i rely forget what Saint in particular—or if any—is KIOW charged with the protection of the " town and territory" of Gibraltar; but the intervention of one seems highly necessary, for the devil has obtained a great footing in the place, claiming as his own a tower, a bowling green, a bellows, a gap, and last not least, a tremendous tongue of fire. Perhaps these offerings have been made to the black gentleman by some good Ca tholics, like Joseph Martin, on the same principle that the old Italian lady presented him with a costly pair of horns, ob serving, " Sta bene far' amicizia, anche col' Signor Santo Diavolo."—Scott's Ronda and Granada. A greyhound bitch, the property of Mr. J. Bow stead, of Sedberg, having been taken to Killington Hall on Thursday week for the purpose of coursing, was shut up in a barn, when the poor animal, not relishing the restraint, mounted to the top of a large bay mow, and finding a hole just under the rigging of the barn, without further ceremony bounded to the ground. The distance from the hole to the ground being measured, was found to be thirty-four feet. The bitch was not the least injured by the leap, but actually ran and won her coarse soon afterwards. —Carlisle Patriot. THE HERRING FISHERY. THIRTY-NINE Lives LOST. —The catch of herrings has this week somewhat improved; this, however, is but a poor consolation to those engaged in the fishery, for the dreadful loss of human life which has taken place amongst the men engaged in that hazardous employment. We have to record the loss of three fishing-boats with all their crews, excepting only one man, who was saved after having encountered the greatest dangers. In addition to these, ten men have been washed or fallen overboard since the commencement of the season, making in all thirty-nine who have perished, many of whom have left widows and families in a state of destitution. The Mary, the property of Messrs. Scarfe and George; and the Reward, belonging to Mr. Giles, were lost with all hands, in the gale o a f in t e h d e i e n ab ti i i l ;;l atot of Monday se'nnight. The Walter and Ann, the property of Mr. W. Campbell, was struck by a sea on the morning of Sunday last, and turned bottom upwards. Nine of her crew Another Ptth were drowned, one man named Hales alone being saved. It appears that Hales was in the cabin with some of his ship mates, when he heard the master on deck sing out, " Hold on, any b e o t y hh s ee , nl h me e a r nl e lpe c 4, o , m w e th s ,i a ,ehp h u e ht a e v th y e( s i e ih a ae . l i e ' rns ) Some one then said, broadsidede c i si on was, it tur a n P e p is companions d o e uar hers, fatal sohnis done. ihern c w om as pi n e o te w ly re o v v e e r r s . ed, T i. h e e ., si t t h u e a y tio s n mn o d f upon long the th e they o r o e f m Hales and h . perilous situation it is impossible up to their knees in water. How to say--Hales supposes three hours; but the quantity of air contained in the cabin, frora excluded, would not have leen sufficient'alFh all fresh su p p l y was e nough to preserve one m an for $lO to afford oxyge n long a time. His com panions gradually sunk from exhaustion, but the sea having rolled the boat on her band huneam-ends, Hal es , b y great exertion, escaped from the cabin, g on by th e scaffolding until he was picked u p b y a Yorkshire c oble. The remaind er o f the crew were of course washed overboard when the first sea struck the boat. Hales is suffering greatly from numbness and cold consequent upon his long immersion in the water. Su f folk Chronicle, LAW INTELLIGENCE. VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, Nor. 12. BRANDON V. BRANDON. This was a petition by several persons interested in the es tates of the late Mr. Brandon, to remove Mr. W. J. B. Bran don, the receiver, and Mr. Pettingall, one of the trustees, from their offices. The substantial charge made against these gentlemen was, that they had received one hundred pounds of the trust property, which they had sedulously kept from the knowledge of the parties, with the intention of appropriating it to themselves. The occurrence arose out of the renewal of a lease of an estate called the Three Falcons Estate, which was held under the Dean and Chapter of Canterbury. Tho time for septennial renewal having arrived in August, 1837, the Dean and Chapter named 1,7991.55. as the amount of the fine. This: sum exceeded the preceding fine by seve ral hundred pounds, and the trustees appointed Brandon and Pettingall as a deputation to go and treat with the Dean and Chapter on the subject, The Dean and Chapter afterwards consented to reduce their claim by 1501., but Brandon, at the desire of the trustees, wrote a letter, offering 1,600/. This letter represented that the parties interested in the estate were utterly unable, on account of the very heavy and serious law expenses, to meet so great a demand as the Dean and Chapter were making, without subjecting themselves to the greatest possible privations, and that the parties must that year he deprived of any income whatever. A subsequent interview took place, at which the Bishop of Oxford (the Dean), " who was fully aware," as Brandon represented it, "of the trouble, time, and expense which had been occupied and incurred by the members of the deputation in attending at Canterbury upon the several occasions," informed the depu tation that the fine could not be reduced, but the Dean and Chapter eould"make them a present of 1001. A meeting of the trustees was shortly afterwards held, at which the deputa tion stated that no reduction could be obtained of the fine, and it was agreed that the amount should be paid. But as to the present nothing was said, save that it was intimated by Mr. Pettingall, that when all was settled some present might be made to them, the members of the deputation. NJ import ance, however, said Mr. Scargill, the solicitor of the pe • titioners, was attached to the observation. On the 6th of January the deputation again went to Canterbury and gave their cheque for 1,649/. 55., and received on the other hand a cheque for 1001. payable to themselves. Brandon, in his of fidavit, stated that he and Pettingall believed this money was intended as a gratuity to the deputation for their trouble and loss of time, but that he had determined on passing his ac counts to state the circumstances to the Master when the item of the payment of the fine was arrived at, and in case the Master should be of opinion that he was entitled to retain the present, he would have struck out of the account his coach-hire and expenses.. His HONOUR, without calling for a reply, delivered judg ment, and must confess he heard the case with great pain. His Honour then detailed all the circumstances from the affi davits to the effect already stated, and observed, if it had been the intention of Pettingall and Brandon all along to introduce this matter into their account—for that is the statement in their affidavit—they ought to have introduced the item at once into their account, and have at the same time stated the cir • cumstances connected with it. Although it might be true that in departments of life not within the cognizance of the Court, there was a degree of taking of bribes, and so on, practised ; and although in the higher departments of life, for anything he knew, it did go on to some extent, and without that degree of censure which, if the matter were coolly viewed, it would be found to deserve ; yet in all cases between agent and em ployer, trustee and cestuique trust, the Court always held that the agent could not withhold any benefit he bad received from the employer or cestuique trust. They must be re moved with costs, and a new receiver and another trustee must be appointed. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, Nov. 12. THE QUEEN V. MUNTZ AND PHANE. In this case, which was not concluded yesterday when we went to press, the rule for a new trial was postponed. BAIL COURT, Nor. 12. SOUTHEND PIER COMPANY. In this case the Court granted the rule for a 7?' anda m s , which was applied for by Mr. Price, on Saturday. Mr. RYLAND applied to the Court for a rule, calling upon the Justices of St. Albans to show cause why a writ of man dames should not issue, commanding them to hear an appeal under the 6th and 7th Will. IV., c. 96, s. 6. Mr. Justice LITTLEDALE granted a rule to show cause. Mr. ALEXANDER applied for a writ of habeas corpus. A lad, named Wood, was detained from his father, by one of his relatives. The COURT granted the writ. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Nov. 12. WATSON V. REEVE. Mr. GRAY applied for a rule to show cause why a new trial should not be granted in this case upon affidavits, which stat%l that the cause was the eighth on the list of causes stand ing Tor trial before Mr. Justice Parke on Saturday last ; that the attorney in the case had not thought it necessary to deliver his brief before eleven o'clock on that morning; but that, when he went down to the Court for that purpose, he found that the cause had been tried as, undefended. Of course, be moved for the rule, on the payment of costs out of the pocket of the attorney himself. The COURT granted a rule to show cause. ADMIRALTY COURT, Nov. 12. THE TRITON-BOTTONIRY. In this case the Triton, from London to Singapore, met on her homeward voyage with bad weather, and put into the Cape, where the master received two bottomry bonds. The vessel proceeded on her voyage, and arrived at Plymouth, where another bottomry bond, to the amount of 1771. 7s. 9d., was given in consequence of the alleged necessary expenses which had been incurred, the owner of the vessel having died at Kirkaldy, in Scotland, immediately previous to the granting of the bond. The question for the consideration of the Court was, whether the case came within its jurisdiction, as the bond was given at Plymouth, the practice usually being that bonds could not be upheld unless entered into at some foreign port. Dr. HAGGARD appeared on behalf of the holder of the bond. The COURT would make no order till it had been informed of all the facts. In the mean time it would give its attention to the arguments offered on behalf of the Plymouth bond holders. THE RICHMOND. This is a suit for subtraction of wages promoted by a ma riner, John Henning, against the owners of the Richmond. The seaman was hired in July, 1837, as steward of the ves sel at the rate of 31. 15s. per month, for a voyage to Cal cutta and back. The mariner's contract was signed on the Ist of August, and the vessel sailed on the sth. On be half of the mariner it bad been pleaded that he was hired on the 10th of July ; that he performed all the duties of steward in an efficient manner until the 10th of September, w h e n he received an injury on his right shoulder, which rendered him inefficient, but that he exerted himself to the uttermost ; that lie returned with the vessel, and was dis charged on the 19th of June. A responsive allegation was this day offered on behalf of the owners, which sets up that the mariner was not hired until the 20th of July, 1837—that he did not adequately perform the functions of stewardship, that immediately after the sailing of the vessel, before she had reached Margate, much of the property under his care was broken, much lost—that the master of the vesse l t h ere en d ea voured to obtain an efficient person to supply his place, but was unable ; that the same inattention an d i n d o l ence which had been exhibited at the commencement was displayed throughout the whole voyage, and that he was unfit for the duties which he had undertaken. The Learned Judge having heard Dr. Phillimore in support of th e allegation, and Dr. A dd ams co ntra, directed the allegation to be resumed. INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, Nor. 12. IN RE THOMAS FORD. In this case an important application was made under the compulsory clause of the new Act, which the Court decided. The prisoner had been some years in Whitecross-street Prison, and Mr. Charles 'Wright, a solicitor, residing in Ely place, Holborn, had obtained a vesting order under the com pulsory clause ; he afterwards applied for the assigneeship, and in his affidavit he detailed at some length the circum stances of the case. He set forth that he had had the prisoner up under the Lord's Act, and he had refused to make an as signment ; he could have indicted him, but had not presented a bill, and had availed himself of the new Bill. He stated that he believed the prisoner had freehold property and money i n his possession; he therefore wished to be named assignee, to order to recover property to pay his debt. The appoint ment was made, and Mr. Wright now made an application to search the prisoner's room. It appeared Irons his affidavit that he had applied to the Deputy Governor of the prison to search the room, but had been refused, and he now came to the Court for assistance. Mr. Commissioner Bow EN could grant an authority on the keeper of the prison to permit the search for property. The Court issued a mandate instanter. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HO USE. About three weeks ago a little mulatto boy, between thir teen and fourteen years of age, who said that hie name was Dick Symons, was la-ought before the late Lord Mayor by woman of colour, who met him in the streets deserted agd hungry, took him under her protection, and soon afterwards, upon hearing his account of himself arid his adventures, brought him, by the advice of some persons to whom she men tioned his singular story, to the Lord Mayor of London. The late Lord Mayor, who never failed to sympathise wi4h the unfortunate, communicated with Alderman Pirie, and that gentleman, being an extensive shipowner and possessing facilities of acquiring knowledge connected with our western colonies, undertook to inquire into the particulars of the boy's statement. _ . Yesterday Alderman Pirie acquainted Mr. Hobler with his belief in the facts stated by the boy, and also said that he had procured for the little adventurer a passage to Jamaica, from whence the poor fellow had been stolen. The details of the case were not given at the time the boy was introduced to the Lord Mayor, because they appeared to have been for the most part fabricated, and to have no more foundation than man} of the tales of suffering recited before the Chief Magittrate, and no sooner recited than detected and exposed. The opinion that this poor child has told nothing but the truth, however, justifies the description of what occurred at the Mansion [louse on the subject. The woman of colour who solicited the attention of Sir John Cowan to the case of the little mulatto, said that he had informed her that he had been induced by an English captain at Jamaica to go on board the captain's vessel, was taken by him to Cuba and offered for sale there without success, and finally conveyed to London, where the captain, not being able to prevail upon any one to take him as a present, contrived to lose him. The late Lord Mayor received the following account in an swer to many questions on the subject :—Dick Symons was born free at Kingston, in Jamaica. His father was a white, but his mother was black, and he had a brother and a sister. The business in which his father, who supported his family by selling salt fish and pickled frogs and rats, was bringing him up was the odd one called a dolls' shoemaker, at which he was becoming a proficient when he was taken away frdm his home. As he was walking in Kingston the Captain of an English brig asked him the way to some place, and, upon being informed, invited him to look at the vessel. The boy, upon going on board, was thirsty, and the Captain gave him some strong white drink, and he very soon afterwards fell asleep, and when he awoke he was surprised and terrified at finding that he was at sea, and the vessel dashing along. When he cried to he put ashore the Captain told him if he made a noise that he should go overboard and, be food for the sharks, and thenceforward employed him in cleaning up the cabin until they reached Cuba. While at that island, where they took in mahogany, fustick, and lancewood, the Captain tried to sell him to a gentleman for twenty dollars, but no one would buy him. Mr. /Lbler—Are you sure that he endeavoured to sell you ? Boy—Yes. A -gentleman came a-board and the skipper pulled out a long bottle of wine and gave him a drink, and then he said, " Buy this fellow fur twenty dol lars ;" but the gentleman was afraid, and so we came off for England. Mr. Hobler—And how did they treat you ? Boy—They knocked me about, and kicked me and cursed me, and they used to make me go up the shrouds when the wind blowed heavy. The report sent in by the Keeper of Giltspur-street Compter ' where the boy has been lodged, was extremely favourable. The Chaplain said that Dick was so indus- • trious, that, rather than sit idly, he would work at the pump for hours. _ _ _ Mr. Hobler—Did you go to Church regularly at Jamaica Boy-Yes, Sir ; I went often, and we used to have a great many black and white people. Where I went the Jews used to come. Mr. Hobler—The Jews t Then you used to go to a syna gocrue? Boy—No, I went to a Protestant Church. ' Mr. Hobler—And the Jews went to that Church? Boy-- Yes, plenty of 'em ; they'd go anywhere at all. Mr. Nobler—And you say 3 our prayers constantly ? Boy-- Ido ; and I say grace before and after meat every day. I always pray to get home to mother and father, and I hope you'll send me soon, for they think I am drowned; but the skipper didn't care about that. I think though he asked twenty dollars for me he would have drowned me for ten. The late LORD MAYOR asked what became of the captain or the skipper, as the poor little fellow called the rascal who attempted to sell him ? The boy—When we came into the dock„aliather skipper got the brig, and he went to Ireland, for he could not sell me here, and I don't think anybody would buy me there. —( A laugh.) The skipper tried to make a butcher take me when we came into the Downs, but the butcher, upon turning me round, swore he would not stow away such rubbish.—(Laughter.) Alderman Pirtle had reason to believe the mulatto's story, and on Wednesday or Thursday next the boy should sail for Jamaica. The sale of the boy could not easily have taken place at Cuba, as the penalty attached to any offence of the kind was enormous. Dick was delighted at hearing that he was soon to leave England, although he appears most grateful for the kindness with which he has been treated. He is a fine tempered boy, and he has not varied in the slightest degree in the numbers of times he has mentioned the particulars of the calamity which befel him. Alderman Plum is in possession of the names of the skipper and the brig. HA7'TON-GARDEN. Yesterday Thomas Hawkins, an elderly man, was brought before Mr. floskiNs, in the custody of a policeman of G divi sion, charged by Lee, a constable of St. Sepulchre's parish, with having caused an obstruction on the foot pavement, The prisoner, who was deformed, had a large basket, containing a can with hot eel pies. Lee was appointed by the Commissioners of Pavements to rnnove persons with stalls from the foot pavement. Yester day morning the prisoner was in St. John-street with his basket and eels, slung round his neck, when he ordered him to go away three times, but refusing to go he took him into custody. Mr. HOSKINS asked the prisoner what he had to say?Pri soner—That it is a very hard case that I am not suffered to get an honest living. I have been in the parish for upwards of 35 years, and was never the least burthen to them. I have been convicted and transported, and here is a copy of my con viction. lam now trying to live honestly by selling my goods in the street, but it seems that they want to drive me to thiev ing again. I always have my goods slung around my neck, and never obstruct anybody. rvir. HOSKINS-It is against the law. Prisoner—Then what am I to do, your Worship, am I to starve ? Mr. HosKlNs—You must trade somewhere else. Prisoner—But I have a right to be in my own parish—if I am not allowed to get my living honestly I shall be driven to do what I did before. Mr. HOSKINS inquired whether it was the tradespeople who complained of the nuisance ? Lee replied in the affir mative. Prisoner—They do not complain. They allow poor people to sell their goods in the street, but there is an arbitrary power exercised over us. Mr. Storey, a Queen's tax-collector, said that the trades people of the neighbourhood had complained to the Commis sioners of the Paving Board. Mr. flosKiNs—The tradespeople are interrupted, and it must be stopped. Will you promise not to do so in future ? Prisoner—l will not promise. How am Ito get my living ? It will be no good for me to make a promise to your Worship, and deceive you ; I cannot starve. Mr. HosKims--If you are obstinate, you must be locked up. Prisoner—l cannot help it—l will not promise. Mr. HOSKINS informed him that the law would not suffer him to repeat the nuisance, and the prisoner persisting in his refusal to promise not to repeat it, he was ordered to be locked up. Waddington, the gaoler, accordingly did so, but the pri soner was subsequently liberated by order of the Magistrate. A Stockholm Journal announces that the King of Sweden has issued an ordinance forbidding, pro tempore, the distillation of brandy within his dominions. Women are formed for attachment. Their grati tude is unimpeachable. Their love is an unceasing fountain of delight to the man who has once attained it, and knows how to deserve it. But that very keenness of sensibility, which, if well cultivated, would prove the source of your highest enjoy ment, may grow to bitterness and wormwood if you fail to at tend to it, or abuse it. The public cemetery at Naples is composed of a large enclosure, having 365 openings or sepulchres, answering to the days of the year, symmetrically arranged. Wit is brushwood, judgment tinder : the one gives the greatest flame, the other yields the durablest heat; and both meeting make the best fire.—Sir T. Overbury. The original difference between Emperor and King was, an Emperor derived his title from the votes of the sol- diery, a King from those of the civilians. FRIENDSHIP OF THE WORLD.—When I see leaves drop from their trees in the beginning of autumn, just such, think I, is the friendship of the world. While the sap of maintenance lasts, my friends swarm in abun dance ; but in the winter of need, they leave me naked. He is a happy man that hath a true friend at his need ; but he is more truly happy that bath no need of his friend.— War wick's Spare Minutes. Saturday, at the Kensington Petty Sessions, the sitting Magistrates were again occupied several holrs in hear ing summonses against persons for suffering their dogs to be at large, most of whom were convicted and fined. Among them was a man named Lunnun, who, in addition to being fined, was held to bail for threatening to murder an inhabitant named Gilbert, who, having been twice bitten, has been most active in endeavouring to bring the owners of dogs suffered at large to justice. He is also suspected to be the writer of a letter received by Mr. Barlow, one of the Magistrates, last week, threatening to murder that gentleman and to fire his pro perty, in consequence of the recent convictions. INDELIBLE WRITING.—The French Consul in Dublin has offered 36,000 francs for paper on which writing cannot be obliterated,—,Publin Paper. MONEY AND CITY NEWS (FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.) TIM E S.—The English St , ek maiket has been dull all day. Consols remain as before, 94 - k to -4 for Money and AC' count. Bank Stock, 203 to 1 ; India S.tock, 260+ to 1 1 ; Exchequer Bills, 683. to 703. premium. Foreign Securities arc heavy, with little variation in price!' Spanish Actives, with the May Coupons, were 171 to Portuguese Five per Cents., 31 to ; the Three Pe Cents., 20+ to !if ; Brazilian, 78+ to -it ; Mexican, 23 to Colombian, 25 ; Dutch Tao-and-a- Half per Cents. , 541 to ; the Five per Cents., 1001 to R. The Share Market was flat, with a tc ndency to decline ill railways. Great Western were 13 to 14 ; London ard mirigham, 82 to 4; Southampton new, 201 to 1+; Mai le " e ; ter and Birmingham, to 1+ ; North Midland, 2to 3 prela' u- ii Southampton old, 41 to 31 . ; Brighton, 21 to a; 1 , 1 to 1 discount. By the Iberia steamer the back India mails for July August have been received, together with the remaining 12 „,a,,1; of the overland despatch of September 12 from Bombay. 1 "" Post-office, as usual, is last in the field. The SePterober de• sratch was partially received here, and the intelligearo brought by it published in this Paper a fortnight since. fn three days subsequently Mr. Waghorn's packet arrived, al e ten days after comes the Post-office delivery. Thus prie s !) . and almost unaided enterprise beats, and regularly beats , t L BlackWs, Post-office with all the extraordinary r esources at its disPe/_!t The result of the first year's operations of the Laffitte Jut $ Stock Bank at Paris have recently been published, after general meeting of the shareholders, to whom they wer e i 0 Irshited. As this is the first institution of the kind , if Ile France, France, at least in Paris, excepting the Bank of Fran i; which, properly speaking, is a State establishment, $0 progress will be traced with some interest. It app re, that the general movement of business, comprising , o r ceipts and •payments, amounts in gross for the Year to 510,000,000 f., or about 20,400,0001., spread over ef, year in the following proportions:—The Ist qu, rt 49 595,000 f. ; second quarter, 102,107,000 f. : third qua`' e be 158,760,000 f. ; fourth quarter, 199,565,0001. Thus frotn t or. first to the last quarter the business of the Bank was qua d j .o pled. The circulation of " credit notes" (billets de crel l 0 or promissory paper bearing interest, and after date, Wag a lso progressing, although not so extensively as seemed in the i n s instance to be calculated upon. That of the first quarter i 913-4 given, and is said to have been insignificant ; that of the see° n „ quarter, ending in March, was 5,784,000 f. ; of the third ge a ih ter, ending with June, 9,186,000 f., and that of the La ur ae f quarter, ending with September, 14,153,000 f, uneir, these circumstances, the attainment of a paper „,0/. culation during the first year of upwards of 560,70c1c is an important item in the progress of Joiat-Tdc,. Bank paper money in France. This amount is pendent of a smaller amount of paper in circulation not he fig, ing interest at three months, on various dates after sig ht ,' o ll sued for special occasions, of which the sum wa g ;bus 504,000 f. It is'stated, that of the whole of the notes • 0 in circulation, about one-third consisted of notes paY 81)1 .1 of 15 and 30 days' sight, whilst the disposable active oar" and the bank on the 30th of September in bills and secu ritreso in specie exceeded 28.500,000 f. It was intimated that auc:be siderable extension of the " credit note" circulation raig"„sr anticipated from the measures in progress to render theo' r able or receivable in every place of any consideratiel the France. At present they were current only at Paris, se o rs, object was to make them equally available in the depar t r e d in' The number of accounts opened at the Lafitte Bank " r e bicb creased from 1,728 iu March to 2,420 in September ; e:1 1 6,5. there were at Paris 1,448, in the departments 807, abr oaa HE R ALD.—The arrival of the Peninsular steamer, -11sb, which has brought the overland mails from India for dial; 0 0 of July, August, and September, although it has broag t ea further political information from any portion of our easrcaa, possessions, has created much attention amongst the ta..nose' tile interests connected with that portion of the world , in '''oll, quence of its having brought a very large amount a li e u bl tances, the delay of which has for so long a time bee n 4our all parties connected either commercially or otherwise the Indian possessions. Much anxiety, however, prevails,' pifsi• further advices from India, which may be expected 0%00 seilles by the 19th or 20th instant. Some o f the . 1 0 pi? , which have been received to-day, although their o tberl ls l ol l litical information has been completely anticipated , A e n - o ts serious apprehensions unless the government at home 8 1; i dia t e more rational course of administration respecting our . 0 affairs ; and a few of them boldly maintain that the oa,t l „, pot the higher classes are becoming so very sensible of "3'oo misrule of the British Government in India, that it W lll L l. . e „i; be s more than the exercise of the late mediocre policy w e 'l l " t belf been pursued towards our vast oriental possessions to Ilado not future allegiance. The private letters from Portuga l . 0 0 15 add to the information which has appeared alreadY to the Journal, yet the accounts have not tended to iroPt e iso be value of Portuguese Stocks in this market. It well th; seen that the Spanish Bonds are in worse repu te, wut " 0 ' promulgation of the negotiations respecting the settlerae , o eb lis the Luxembourg question, and the partition o f th e bete l debt between Holland and Belgium, have not at all 8 the securities of'either kingdom. ho n e The British funds continue very steady, without, he" any great amount of business. LONDON MARKETS PRICE OF BREAD. The highest price of Bread in the;Metropolis is 100. for the 411)• 009 d Bread may be had at Rd, PRICE OF _ .O. co, SEEDS.-Nov. 12. New English B r e e d r C C lo w ver.sos. , s. , ~ St. Foin New Foreign Ditt. 46s 65,. 70s. r Q ,. 7 c G 01:4 Ditto Ditto3 ll s• os , Per .. . .................. 4: , 0 :: : ' -a. -s Rya Grass ......... 28$ ~,,, 4_ yrass ............... . r o. to Old Ditto Ditto -a. 4os. Os. Linseed, for feeding' ... 4 °' 50s.' New White Clover 503. lids. 70s. Ditto, for 50wing......... - -s' 4 05. 1. 4 , 01:4 Ditto Ditto -a. 45Y. tins Ditto, for crushing .....• 6 65. r o , New Trefoil ........... -18 s 20s. 255. Canary ...................... ---!, s es. 4 01d Ditto -s. ;Os. 21s. Hemp ........................ -- - s ~,i, frefolium lOs 1 ls. 13s. Per Bushel. 15 4 ; id , n. Vi• ionglish Carraway -s. 425. 465. White Mustard...... vs• o , t. 0.00. Foreign Ditto -s. 40s. 45s Brown Ditto .......•15, ',',.,•• le. Coriander -s Bi. 103. Tares .................... 48 sob Rapeseed, Englia I-, fine 'per Last) 31!. 38/. Foreign 34 PRICES OF HOPS.-Nov. 12. to la n• ". Farnham Pockets (per cwt.) 7: O s . 8/. us- -- t° 1 3 , . lw 0 East I{ ,rit Pockets.-. 4! 10s. 5/. 10, / Ditto Bags. 4!. 5, 51 5 ' - 61. lO '' Mid Kent Pockets to , 011 Ditto Bags 3,. 15 . 4, 15 1 5, Sussex 1 . 15,, 4/. 4,... 4 l • p‘ Yearlings 3l. 10s. 4/. us , to Q 50 , Old Olds Old Duty estimated at 170,090/. rIS , PRICES OF POTATOES AT SPIT A LFI EL- __„ t . toll Ware Middling Chats,,, a, PRICES OF LEATHER. Per lb. d. to d. i Per lb 10 0 34(15:5... 00. 00,1 tott: 32.05555.. Via. 1" i.... 0 Crop Hides, 30 to 401 b each 11 13 !Horse Hides, Geri" an ...... 1 1 1 0 - -40 50 12 16 i Spanish .... ~. .. 50 60 •••-•••• 13 IA Calf Skins, 30 to 401 b. ( 0 " 1 01 5 0 dull Hides Butts, Vitriol ...... . -- 14 16 26 17 1 1- - 7 56 0 1(.6)0.6........:::*%**. 17 1 2 51 English "' 2 0 2° - Foreign Foreign Hides lO 12 ' small ............ 11 ...... 0 Dressing Hides Shaved .... 12 15 Basils.. ......................... l! J. Best Saddlers Hides ... ...... 14 16 !Bellies ................................ ' Horse Hides, English I ,° • If rounded 2d. to 40 par lb more. b 1 01 ' PRICE OF OIL. ee d 0 1 (i , Rape Oil, brown, per ton, 41/.os -Refined, 421. 10s.- Linn „riot,' Linseed Oil Cake at the Mill, (10004 13/. Os - R ape Cake, P'" est PRICE OF TALLOW, SOAP, &c. per 112111• . , '' .. o ll * lawn Tallow Yellow Russia White . 5_ s t .. 0,1 2 ... Curd......... Ye110w,,,d.. Mottled. 50ap .....:.. ........................................................"...... ..? 6 : . • 0 0 0 1 i Soap Ditto -s. Od. Graves ......... •ii ............. . Melting Stuf 43r. Od. Good Dregs ............... Ditto Rough 32s 00. PRICE OF RAW FAT, per stone of 8 114 0 Price of Tallow (as stated by the Tallow Melters) ........" .*".. ..•:" PRICE OF CANDLES. , .. 4 f01 1° 6.1. The price of good Store Candles ir. the Retail Shops o_7_lol. Candles, per dozen, Bs. 61 ; inferior, 7s. (id.-111oul$ 0, /1 Sixpence per dozen discount for cas h. .0. a COAL M ARKET.-Nov. 12. ,) Per Ton. a. (i. r' , -r rbe neo sha l* ,,.. !"4 Bakei's Main Ben ham 'A 9 W,lls End Ridden"' ' ..... ,:.,.; 1 (/ Bute's Tanfield Moor 22 6 Walls End Belmont,-Sietb' i, 0 uh-ster Main Hebburn Main .. 2 ,2 1 I . N 2 6 Lal i l i s s End End li ßr as ad w d e .lci l l t :::,.......*: o :,.. ~,,' 0 ~award's Main 22 0 Walls End lietton ............. _.; .ori .... ~,.. ~, ~ Holywell Main l caze's Main • . „,, 6 Pic ton .. 2O 0 Walls End Harder .... ••• .. f,:q l'ontop Windsor . ...... 0 .., 0 . woo° . T O , 2 4 0 S With Hartley 00 ...2 Willington ..„.. 0 ; Walls End Bell and Brown Walls End Heaton 23 3 Walls End West 'b et on , .. „ A Walls End Hotspur Walls End Killineworthßlythe. ..... . _..........t ... ii ... g pii: o. !;... Walls End Newmirch 52 0 HOward's Nether ... e „,.. 0 2 , Walls End Northumberland 2 , 3 Walls End Dev0n5h.1.,....00, Walls End Peareth l9 0 Walls End Elgino:j: Ships arrived since last inaritet-day. 1- 0 ss• 'O ll --------13 OS GREAT ADVANTAGE TO LARGE C ONS- 0 0- TEA. 06 6° 0 ° t 12i T bs E . a A nd S u a p t w : rds. WHOLESALE PRICES, in ° a ll e h° less than one pound, in tin cases of 61bs. net, or 6Jai a ds ~..5 a i§ To afford every facility to large consumers , ° ri , 3 r w hoto o q .t off or e tho tisement is addressed, not less than one pound of i - osltn i " made at this establishment, as the small profits will not - OP usual division of quantities made by retail houses. I,f G. T. MANSELL and CO WIIOLF,SA s sain c e t e ra t rie : e l :: DEALERS, 2, Bucklersbury, Che . ; *d 1.11 pst 0. Si rl • •1 0 IT v.RS , '' STRONG SETS OF SILVER may H b, CO v . --- d of "ten Patterns, price 16/. the Set St of the Argentine Metal, quite equaf t o o r ph e te s d in app and a Half Guinms the set, at i. 'COX SAVO,eII 1, l' ° Joti e ( G s o c h v ls e m n iptho,o Doors s i l f v r e o r m s m G i t r h a , ce a e o h d ur N e V h at s c t l r i e m et a ) k . er , T 4 b 7 ; ee r of 511. 1' 16 cover 20, 18, 14, and 12 inches in - diameter. "eV 1 A S ‘ju et ' e' ll3sist's r ig earance, ,P s, Wor d o N.B.—The three Show Rooms contain a large sr, r ,a r , i ',, of clo ot,„°' Silver-edged Plated Goods. A Imphlet on I-cif:43o4;ov answer r s taonad post -paid application. o ' n g . of Silver Pla t° %,,, foli c Watches, Clocks, &c., may . be had or will w" clegrll'e n es th W e r B THS. i fe On the 3d inst., at Clapham New Park, th l at e . w et! Bowes a daughter. a6ttshoni,nsEt.sq,.iihrsa.rriTsitleorr7at;lrhi,ropf: cloafulg:rectero.s At St. James's, Captain the N , N r f l or e n / To u r s i e'°l to Diana, only (laughter of the late Colonel 1" toner's Hall, Yorkshire. t llia hou o s n e, th E e sq s . th inst., at _____.--- ----- Lansdown.piace P DIED. ,r; c op lb On the 6th inst.. at Brighton, John Emmerton r 0 of Thrumpton, Notts, and Landford-grove, Essex• Aoghte On the 6th inst., at Cheltenham, Anne, eldest u Major D'Acton, aged 18. East, Bath, NG , of 0 /4 rf London : Printed and Published by 1%1 1111D0 N r() , Lj— ii t he ° Q.- 112, Strand, at The Sun Office, No. 112 Sfri M "? l ' of Middiesex.—Tuesday, November 13) I